Puppet MastersS


Star of David

CNN's endless lies about Palestine and the Marc Lamont Hill firing

Juan Cole
Informed Comment
Sat, 01 Dec 2018 15:45 UTC
Marc lamont
Marc Lamont Hill
CNN has fired contributor Marc Lamont Hill for a speech he gave on Palestinian rights at the UN. The speech can be found here.

You can protest this outrageous firing at this petition site.

And here is a link to his book, Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond, which everyone should buy and read.

CNN would have been under special pressure to fire Hill because he is a prominent African-American intellectual with a following in his own community, and the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs (the propaganda arm of the Likud government) is worried about the boycott and sanctions movement spreading among American minorities who might sympathize with the oppressed Palestinians.
Read More...
Marijuana

Anti-drug Duterte jokes that he smokes pot to stay awake during international meetings


RT
Mon, 03 Dec 2018 16:01 UTC
Duterte
© Reuters / David GrayPhilippines' President Rodrigo Duterte says attending international events is a boring business.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who has waged a controversial crusade against drugs, said that smoking pot helps him keep fit at events that are too tedious for a man of his age. He later said he was "cracking a joke."

Duterte has said he had to take marijuana to "stay awake" as the "killing activity" during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summits takes a toll on his health, local media reported on Monday. "It doesn't work with others," he added.

Brutal crackdown on drug dealers and crime rings became the backbone of Duterte's policies. The anti-drug crusade unleashed by an unrestrained Philippines president has claimed more than 20,000 lives by the government's own count. Duterte has bragged he personally killed suspects during his time as mayor of Davao.

With heads of state admitting the use of marijuana on duty still being a rare thing today, international media rushed to report the stunning remark. However, in less than an hour Duterte retracted the remark and said he was just kidding to keep the audience entertained.
Read More...
Control Panel

'Putin's puppet': Tory Minister Amber Rudd lashes out at Corbynite MP for discussing UK's child poverty on RT


RT
Mon, 03 Dec 2018 13:14 UTC
Amber Rudd
© Reuters / Hannah McKay(L) Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd (R) Labour MP Chris Williamson MP with leader Jeremy Corbyn
Amber Rudd has hit out at Labour MP Chris Williamson, labelling him one of "Putin's puppets" after his appearance on RT where he blamed the UK govt for creating a child poverty crisis this Christmas.

The Work and Pensions Secretary, and close ally of Prime Minister Theresa May, was widely ridiculed on social media for ignoring the issue of poverty in the UK, which was highlighted recently in a damning UN report.

Rudd made the comment after Williamson had tweeted about his interview on RT's Going Underground show. He talked about his "utter outrage" at a report by housing association, the Peabody Trust, that says more than 100,000 children are at risk of being plunged into poverty this Christmas, as families wait for their delayed universal credit payment.

Read More...
Stock Up

World stocks, US futures and crude soar as Trump, Xi truce delivers early Christmas rally

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 03 Dec 2018 12:22 UTC
stock market rally 12.3.18
The Grinch may have stolen Thanksgiving profits, but Christmas came early for markets with world stocks rising over one percent and pushing emerging currencies higher against the dollar, as S&P futures jumped as much as 2%...
S&P Emini futures 12.3.18
... and the Shanghai Composite soared 2.9% after the U.S. and China agreed to halt new tariffs for 90 days. Commodities spiked and the dollar rebounded from session lows. The MSCI's all-country world index rose 0.9% in its sixth straight day of gains and hit its highest level since Nov. 9 while emerging equities rose 2.1% and were set for their strongest day in a month.

Comment: Xi Jinping and Donald Trump agree to trade truce at G20

Read More...
Attention

The hard truth about the migrant caravan: A battle between 'one-world globalism' and 'national sovereignty'

Seraphim Hanisch
The Duran
Mon, 03 Dec 2018 13:23 UTC
central american migrants rush US border
The Central American migrant caravans may seem like old news, but the narratives offered by the mainstream media clashed with reality sharply one week ago when a particular caravan found itself stopped at the US border in the Mexican city of Tijuana.

There is a lot more to this and other groups, each numbering thousands of people, in their efforts to enter the United States. In a sense the entire battle between "one-world globalism" and "national sovereignty" can be found in the character, actions and the very nature and driving philosophy that has energized these groups of people. This video clip by independent journalist Ami Horowitz is extremely telling.


Comment: See also:

Read More...
Cross

Be celibate or leave the priesthood, pope tells gay priests

Philip Pullella
Reuters
Sun, 02 Dec 2018 16:11 UTC
Pope Francis
© REUTERS/Max Rossi/File PhotoPope Francis leads a special audience with members of a volunteers association from Sardinia island in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican November 30, 2018.
Men with deep-rooted homosexual tendencies should not be admitted to the Catholic clergy, and it would be better for priests who are actively gay to leave rather than lead a double life, Pope Francis says in a new book.

While he has previously spoken of the need for better screening of candidates for the religious life, his comments suggesting that priests who cannot keep their vows of celibacy should leave are some of his clearest to date.

Francis made the comments in a book-length interview with Spanish priest Fernando Prado called "The Strength of Vocation", in which he discusses the challenges of being a priest or nun today.

Comment: Realistically, if someone takes a vow of chastity, and are able to keep it, there shouldn't really be an issue with their sexuality (pedophilia aside, of course), since they're not acting on it. However, the problems within the Catholic Church with pedophilia and general sexual deviancy shows that many priests are not only unable to prevent themselves from acting on it, but succumb to levels of perversion rare even in general society. Whether its something about the church that leads to this degeneracy, or the church itself attracts these twisted individuals is, at this point, unknown.

See also:

Read More...
Attention

European Parliament member Marcel de Graaff: Criticism of migration will become criminal offence


Albawaba
Sun, 02 Dec 2018 12:49 UTC
London pro-refugee protest
© AFP/FilePhotoDemonstrators hold placards as they take part in a pro-refugee rally in central London.
A video of Marcel de Graaff, member of the European Parliament (MEP) while discussing the UN's compact on migration and EU's intention to criminalize hate speech against migrants has been shared and criticized widely on social media.

Shortly before an international congress is scheduled to take place in Marrakech, Morocco on 10 and 11 December, Graaff warned EU citizens that there countries are set in to sign a joint agreement on criminalising hate speech against migrants considering migration as a human right.

In the video, Graaff says that EU countries are set in to sign this legal framework which obligates signing countries to build new legislation on hate speech definition to include criticizing migrants.

Comment: They're not even hiding any pretense of upholding any sort of freedom of speech. Don't like the pathological immigration policy of your government? Say anything about it and you'll go to jail. This is truly astonishing! At this point, how can the EU actually pretend to be anything but a fascist state?

See also:

Read More...
Eye 2

'Perpetual confrontation': MI6 chief lures young Brits into espionage with Russia-bashing


RT
Mon, 03 Dec 2018 01:58 UTC
spy mi6
© Instagram / insertpun
The head of MI6, the UK's intelligence service, hopes to recruit a new generation of tech-savvy spies, with a passionate speech urging graduates to protect the homeland against the arch nemesis who subverts the UK way of life.

"The era of the fourth industrial revolution calls for a fourth generation of espionage," Alex Younger will say at St. Andrews University on Monday.
If you want to make a difference and you think you might have what it takes...we hope you will step forward.
To lure young Brits into the spy agency who otherwise might not have seen themselves in MI6, Younger paints an image of a clever arch nemesis - Russia - which can only be stopped with the help of brilliant young minds from all sorts of backgrounds, not just by the snobbish Oxbridge graduates typically associated with the service.

Comment: So what's behind all the anti-Russian propaganda?
"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."

- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
And so, considering the terminal decline the UK (and most of the Western powers) are undergoing, the enemy 'out there' - whether it be Russia or diesel cars - is needed to justify the failing governments continued existence, to rally the 'troops', and to redirect the anger they're feeling for their deteriorating quality of life onto the establishments chosen strawman. Except that life is becoming so unbearable that the people are beginning to question the governments narrative: And for more, check out SOTT radio's:

Read More...
Bad Guys

Donbass prepares for renewed assault as video shows Ukraine's army buildup at border

Seraphim Hanisch
The Duran
Sun, 02 Dec 2018 12:00 UTC
Poroshenko Ukraine Army
© Gleb Garanich / Reuters
The Russian account of the Kerch Strait incident appears more truthful as Ukraine continues to spin its story and mass against Donbass.

Vesti News released a new video showing the preparations the already besieged Donbass region in Ukraine is making for Poroshenko and the NATO embedded forces trying to take the area.

Russia One's evening broadcast indicated that the Russian borders are strongly fortified and ready to face anything Ukraine might throw at it.

The concern here is for a Ukrainian, not a Russian, provocation. This follows from the information in the Kerch Strait incident last Sunday, which detailed that Ukrainian counterintelligence agents directed the sailors on board the Ukrainian ships to not follow proper notification and navigation procedures with regard to the Russian authorities as they entered waters mutually controlled by both Russia and Ukraine.

Comment: Ukraine is so confident in defying peace agreements and antagonising Russia because, for now at least, it thinks it has the full support of the West: And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Donbass Leader Assassinated as Russia Exposes Chemical Plot in Syria

Read More...
SOTT Logo Radio

SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Révolution Jaune? France Revolts Against Macron


Sott.net
Mon, 03 Dec 2018 17:00 UTC
France MAcron yellow vests protests
As the gilets jaune movement continues in France, with protests entering their third week, the French government's response has been to hold firm with proposed increases in fuel and other taxes, and to task anti-riot police with beating back protesters in the heart of Paris. While this movement may also peter out like many before it, the scale, intensity and cross-party grassroots support for the 'yellow vests' speaks to the general discontent with corruption in France, and Emmanuel Macron in particular.

This week on NewsReal, Joe & Niall discuss the violent stand-off between elites and working people in France, the 'Ukrainian' Navy's provocation near Russia's new Crimean Bridge, the latest lunacy from the legacy media regarding the Russiagate affair, and some of the antics at this year's G20 Summit.


Running Time: 01:35:10

Download: MP3

Read More...